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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (78920)	9/19/2012 9:45:30 PM
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Media In Alternate Reality On Obama Failures Election 2012: Hell breaks loose all over the world, the economy stinks, and we're going broke. But the president parties, yuks it up with Letterman and skips intelligence briefings. All the while, the press sees no evil. Rod Serling called the TV fantasyland he made famous a "middle ground between light and shadow," a "wondrous land of imagination." Like the "Twilight Zone," in the alternate dimension of the "ObamaMedia," the unearthly laws of physics never allow the buck to stop on the president's desk. American weakness, which in recent months has become obvious to enemy and friend alike, has invited aggression and sparked mayhem from the Mideast to Europe to Asia in recent days. It only began with the killing of our ambassador to Libya and three other Americans, spreading to Egypt where Islamists invaded the embassy and ripped down the stars and stripes. (Until the Obama era, of course, Egypt was our ally and Libya had become dormant after being pressured into abandoning its nuclear program.) Subsequently, anti-American violence has sprung up in Pakistan, where Islamists broke into the U.S. consulate in Karachi. Rioters shouting "death to America" have clashed with security forces outside a U.S. base in Afghanistan and near the U.S. embassy in Indonesia. In Tunis, thousands of demonstrators have set the U.S. embassy afire. Fifty Chinese demonstrators have attacked the U.S. ambassador's car, ripped off its flag and blocked his entrance into our embassy. Obviously this is no reaction to a YouTube video but a swelling of contempt for a weakened superpower. Beyond mobs in the streets, the Washington Times reports that the National Counter-Terrorism Center has told Congress that soon-to-be-nuclear Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps "poses a threat beyond the immediate region" — with that threat extending to the U.S. homeland. With apparently no one paying attention, President Obama is ending joint ground-force operations between NATO and Afghan personnel, shattering the illusion that we have a victory strategy of training their forces to be able to defend against Taliban aggression. And now, on top of all that, China may go to war with Japan over disputed islands — as Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, in a speech Wednesday to some of the 2.3 million-strong People's Liberation Army, assured them that "our rebalance to the Asia-Pacific region is not an attempt to contain China." Our Pentagon chief kowtowing to the Red Chinese Army? Maybe this really is the "Twilight Zone." These are all the inevitable consequences of an Obama foreign policy predicated on the projection of American weakness through appeasement and apology. Economically, there is no hope in sight if this presidency continues. With tens of millions unemployed and more and more able-bodied Americans throwing in the towel on finding a job, the Congressional Budget Office now says nearly 6 million mostly middle-class Americans will end up paying the ObamaCare tax of an average of nearly $1,200 — 2 million more people than previously estimated. And with $16 trillion in national debt, the president appears on the David Letterman show, agrees with the comedian that the debt is only "several trillion dollars" and soothes viewers with the contention that "we don't have to worry about it short-term." While in New York City visiting Letterman, the president found time for a lavish fundraiser with rapper Jay Z and pop singer Beyonce. Among the trappings: a tower of 350 bottles of Armand de Brignac Brut Gold, worth $105,000 — twice the median income of an American family, as the Daily Mail's Toby Harnden noted. Yet this president has no time to receive national security intelligence briefings. The media refuse to connect the dots, to equate this president's radicalism, his golf-playing sojourns and his derelictions of duties to these failures. They fixate instead on months-old "insensitive" statements from Mitt Romney — not a word of which is untrue. Voters trapped in this media-generated "Twilight Zone" won't save us from more of these disasters.